57 Lizzy had given up looking; whenever her phone rang, she just answered. Miranda had just unloaded another line of reasoned thinking on her, laying out likely targets, angles of attack. I only had a chance to study the laser on the Ghostrider at Lackland for a few minutes. I wish I’d had more time. But it will work for both defensive and attack scenarios. The pilots may not have thought this through, but with the AC-130J Ghostrider’s maneuverability they… She’d hated to do it, but she’d unloaded that call onto the copilot. The fact that, from her seat close behind the pilots, she could see him scribbling frantic notes was either interesting or very unnerving. If Miranda was still tied up with the pilots, then maybe Thorsen had some satellite data for— “Hey, honey. You free for a la

